Is my Maxsun B850ITX BIOS causing crashes in Death Stranding 2?
Every single time I clicked launch, the game would just vanish back to the desktop at the logo screen. It was incredibly frustrating. I found that the Maxsun B850ITX WIFI ICE was on an early BIOS version that had 5-10ms instruction timeouts with newer NVMe protocols. I tried updating the storage controller drivers in Device Manager, but that just made my boot time jump to 40 seconds. Absolute waste of time. I finally flashed the latest Beta BIOS via USB and forced the PCIe mode to Gen4 instead of Auto. Checked the Event Viewer, and those 0x000000 disk I/O errors completely vanished. The flash was a struggle—the board rebooted three times due to power protection until I swapped to a stable PSU. Core temps are now 45-52℃ and the WIFI module sits at 55-60℃. Five cold boots in a row and no crashes. Finally playable.
